WHEREAS it is expedient
to provide for the constitution of a Territorial Army, It is hereby enacted
as follows .:—

1.Short
title, extent and application.—(1)This Act may be called
the Territorial Army Act, 1948.

(2) It extends to the whole of India
and applies to all classes of persons in the Territorial Army, wherever
they may be.

2.
Definition.—In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the
subject or context,—

(a)
"enrolled" means enrolled in the Territorial Army under the
provisions of this Act;

(b)
"officer" means an officer of any of the two classes specified
in section 5;

(c)
"non-commissioned officer" means a person holding a non-commissioned
rank in the Territorial Army, and includes an acting non-commissioned
officer;

(d) "prescribed"
means prescribed by rules made under this Act;

(dd)
"public utility service" means any undertaking which supplies
power, light, gas or water to the public, or carries on a public transport,
or maintains any system of public conservancy or sanitation and which
is declared, by notification in the Official Gazette, by the Central Government
to be a public utility service to which this Act applies :

Provided that no such notification shall be issued unless the Central
Government is satisfied that, having regard to the needs of the Territorial
Army, the persons employed in any such public utility service should,
in the public interest, be made compulsory liable for service in that
Army under this Act;

(e)
the expression "regular army" means officers and other ranks
who, by their commission, terms of enrolment or otherwise, are liable
to render continuously for a term military service under the Army Act,
1950 (XLVI of 1950); and

(f)
all words and expressions used herein and defined
in the Army Act 1950 (XLVI of1950) and not herein before defined, shall
be deemed to have the meanings respectively attributed to them by that
Act.

3.
Constitution of the Territorial Army.—(1) There shall
be raised and maintained in the manner hereinafter provided an army to
be designated the Territorial Army.

(2) The
Central Government may constitute such number of units of the Territorial
Army as it thinks fit and may disband or reconstitute any unit so constituted.

4.
Personnel of the Territorial Army.—There shall be the following
classes of persons in the Territorial Army, namely,—